WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0077. Dedication? to a third century emperor

Description: Fragment of a marble panel (w: 16 x h: 0.14 x d: 0.015, no edges surviving).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Third century capitals: 0.065.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[---] Aurelị [---]
[---] Aug(ust)- d[---]

Diplomatic

[---]AUREL.[---]
[---]AUGD[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

[---] Aurelius [---] Augustus [---] (case unknown)

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 77, whence IRT, 2009, 77, whence EDH 059068; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: Above: Unidentified, Unidentified, 77; below: 84, Unidentified, Unidentified: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BS 48.XXVII.16)